#170 Sentient Bean

1. [since I'm showing you around the capital, let's go to the national museum] (lead on!)
2. [there, what do you think?] (a magnificent building!)
3. [and here is our most treasured exhibit] (it looks like a lentil!)
4. [not just any lentil, the prize of our country, the very foundation of our civilisation, the centre of our zeitgeist] (gosh!)
5. [it is customary to touch it -- like this] (really? why is that?)
6. [to put your finger on the pulse of the nation]